Who We Are + What We Do

Emergency Medicine

Emergency Medicine is the medical specialty concerned with caring for undifferentiated and unscheduled patients with illnesses or injuries requiring immediate medical attention.

Open All Hours

The Emergency Department (ED) is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Patients of all age groups attend with a wide variety of medical, surgical, traumatic, toxicological and psychosocial presentations.

Our Team

Our team are responsible for initiating resuscitation and stabilization, starting investigations and interventions to diagnose and treat illnesses in the acute phase, coordinating care with specialists, and determining disposition regarding patients’ need for hospital admission, observation, or discharge.

Non-Consultant Hospital Doctor Staff

2-3 Specialist Registrars from the National Advanced Specialist Training scheme in Emergency Medicine

5-6 Registrars

8 Senior House Officers from Core Training Schemes in Emergency Medicine, Medicine and General Practice

Sligo University Hospital is a recognized training hospital for the three year Core Specialist Training in Emergency Medicine (CSTEM) - This includes a total of 18 months Emergency Medicine, 3-month rotations in Orthopaedics and Acute Medicine, and 6-month rotations in Paediatrics and Anaesthetics/ICU.

1 Intern

Nursing Staff

Helen O’Shea
Clinical Nurse Manager III

Catherine Kelly

Clinical Facilitator

Advanced Nurse Practitioners

Denise Guckian

Joan Groarke

Clinical Nurse Managers II

Catherine Regan

Trish Luby

Ann McCoy

Martina McManus

Erin Lyons

Julie McGrath

Michael McDonagh

Anna Woodgate

Other Clinical Staff

Our service is supported by staff from other hospital departments

Physiotherapists

Dentists

Occupational Therapists

Mental Health Liaison

Pharmacists

Radiographers

Laboratory Scientists

Social WorkersCardiac Investigations

Chaplaincy

Layout of the Emergency Department

The ED is divided into the following areas

Waiting Room

Reception

2 Triage Rooms

Paediatric Area

Paediatric Waiting Room

2 Paediatric Cubicles

Ambulatory Care Area

2 Cubicles

Plaster Room

ENT/Dental Room

Eye Room

Main Treatment Room

8 Cubicles

2 Isolation Room

Resuscitation Room

2 Resuscitation Bays

Emergency Services

Our sevice is closely allied with colleagues other Emergency Services

National Ambulance Service

Gardai

Irish Coastguard

Air Corps

Fire Service

Mountain Rescue Ireland

Community Liaison

Our service works in conjunction with community-based health services. Many of our patients are referred to us by their General Practitioners , and we communicate with GPs when their patients have attended the ED.

Our frailty team has a community outreach to follow-up on older patients who are at risk from falls.

We also have referral pathways for Community Intervention Team, for Community-based Physiotherapy, for Public Health Nurse follow-up of infants, and for community Mental Health Services.

We also have access (depending on availability) to respite and step-down beds in Community Hospitals

Specialist Nursing Support

The ED is also supported by hospital-based nurse specialists and advanced nurse practitioners in the following areas

Frailty and Falls

Stoma Care

Wound Care

Stroke

Diabetes

Respiratory

Neurology

Dermatology

Oncology

Ophthalmic

Haemovigilance

Infection Control

Resuscitation Training Officer

Neonatal

Palliative Care

Discharge Coordinators

Hospital Specialists in Sligo University Hospital

The ED has access to a wide array of hospital specialists. We work closely with our colleagues in these specialties to provide the best care for our patients

Anaesthetics, Intensive Care, and Pain Medicine

Cardiology

Dermatology

Elderly Medicine

Endocrinology

ENT surgery

Gastroenterology

General Surgery

Haematology

Histopathology

Internal Medicine

Microbiology

Neurology

Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Oncology

Ophthalmology

Oral Surgery/ Orthodontics

Orthopaedic Surgery

Paediatrics

Palliative Care Medicine

Psychiatry

Radiology (including Interventional Radiology)

Renal Medicine

Respiratory Medicine

Rheumatology

Urology

Access to other Specialties

Other specialists are available in other hospitals in Ireland. We transfer patients when required to Regional or National Centers.